Reviews

KahraMusiqa

Badiâa Bouhrizi

Singer-songwriter Badiâa Bouhrizi should really be a household name in global music circles. In Tunisia, her birthplace, she is beloved...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Nakibembe Embaire Group

Nakibembe Embaire Group

Nakibembe is a small village in Uganda's Busoga Kingdom, where the residents preserve the local tradition of playing and dancing...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

JID018

Tony Allen

Recorded in 2018 in Los Angeles some 18 months before his death, this is Allen with his jazz head on,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Babi

Al Bilali Soudan

Touareg music hasn't always been about electric guitars and the Tamashek quartet Al Bilali Soudan (an ancient name for the...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Jolof

Hervé Samb

An album of complexity, sensitivity and smarts, Jolof takes its name from the kingdom that spanned West Africa – the...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Zango

WITCH

‘Zamrock has resurrected from its decades of slumber,’ sings frontman Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda on ‘Message from WITCH’. Jagari, inspired by...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Son of Africa

Remi Kabaka

Flopping on release by Island Records in 1976 — the label too busy with reggae star Bob Marley to promote...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Tusona: Tracings in the Sand

Mokoomba

Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Chale Wote

FRA!

In the Akan language, fra roughly translates as ‘a mix’ of things, which is an excellent description of the music...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Artemisia

Art Melody

Hailing from Burkina Faso, Art Melody is a farmer by day and rapper and singer by night, bringing a fresh...

Reviewed in issue July/2023